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Survivir wrote:

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markw1968 wrote: As nice and all as it sounds, step children ought not to be eligible...especially if they are over 18. If they are not adopted, then the natural parents are more than likely in the picture, and if it is like a vet I know, the natural father is paying for college so the kids are raking in a cool number....to quote the vet: " They pay their own way to spring break in Florida "....said with a huge smile on his face. At that age, they are adults, and they were not reared as the vets and became eligible only because their mother ( or father ) married a vet. how utterly inane.

I agree.

The Chapter 35 Benefits should be for the Children and the Spouse of the Veteran...and NOT for the Step-Children.

What's going to be next...the Ex-Spouse will be eligible, too.

I would rather the Ex-Spouse be eligible for the Chapter 35 Benefits...than Step-Children...because the Ex-Spouse has, in some way, contributed.

Also, I do NOT agree with Children of people on SSDI receiving the equivilant of ONE HALF of the Benefits that the SSDI recipient receives, either.

Children of people on SSDI...should receive benefits similar to what the VA pays.

UNLESS...the Parent of the child has died...then there SHOULD be MORE benefits for a child, in that situation.

There are way TOO MANY Senior Citizens that are barely existing from day to day..and they should get extra benefits...to live their lives, better.

Survivir

Survivir,
I can understand your viewpoint about there are way TOO MANY Senior Citizens that are barely existing from day to day but that doesn't mean that they should get extra benefits. When Social Security was first enacted it was never intended to be a permanent thing or for people to become dependent on it as their only source of income.

I believe (and this is my opinion) that many of our social problems that we have today were started during Roosevelt's administration. When Social Security was enacted it did away with the extended American family. No longer did children have to take care of Mom or Dad or Grandparents, Aunts or Uncles, etc. It became all too easy to say they get a Social Security check or we can put them in a Nursing Home.

What has happened in America is that we have to get advanced degrees just to be considered a struggling middle class. Both parents have to work one sometimes two jobs just to provide the necessities. Where does this leave our children and the future of this nation? Exactly where we are at now...... Children having children, rampant violence and drug use, little if no respect for authority or parents, etc., etc., etc. The majority of the problems we are facing now in society we continue to perpetuate and make worse with every new generation.

How do we end this cycle? That's a good question but what we've got in place now just isn't working.